Wired Magazine Founder Talks Major Artificial Intelligence Breakthroughs [Book Excerpt]

The following excerpt has been selected exclusively for StartupNation readers from "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future" by Kevin Kelly, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. In Chapter 2 of "The Inevitable," titled Cognifying, Kelly discusses the concept of artificial intelligence. In the excerpt below, he introduces the three recent breakthroughs that will make artificial intelligence more prominent in the years to come. Thinking is an inherently parallel process. Billions of neurons in our brain fire simultaneously to create synchronous waves of computation.